NIHR Colorectal Therapies HTC – National Meeting 26th September 2017

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26/09/17

access_time 09:30 - 17:00

location_on Leeds Town Hall

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NIHR Colorectal Therapies HTC – National Meeting 26th September 2017

The NIHR Colorectal Therapies Healthcare Technology Cooperative (HTC) invites you our annual National Meeting on 26th September at Leeds Town Hall, the aim of the meeting is to benefit industry, clinicians, charities, academics and patient groups.

The Colorectal Therapies HTC is part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and our role is to act as a catalyst for the development of new medical devices, healthcare technologies and technology-dependent interventions for the NHS. Our focus is on clinical areas and/or themes of high morbidity which have high potential for improving quality of life of NHS patients and improving the effectiveness of healthcare services that support them. We currently focus on colorectal conditions (surgery, colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease colitis, pelvic floor disorders, etc), however we would like to expand into surgical technologies in vascular conditions (peripheral arterial disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm and lower limb ischaemia), and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery (liver, pancreatic and hepatocellular cancers, gall stone disease and pancreatitis).

Last year’s meeting attracted 158 delegates from industry, academia, healthcare professionals and patients, and resulted in two incubator packages and an alignment of our innovator programme with the NHS England entrepreneur programme.

The theme of this year’s meeting is Jugaad Innovation (frugal innovation) and will focus on finding low-cost solutions to problems in an intelligent way, and the concept is being used as a new way to think constructively and differently about innovation in the UK health service. We have exciting talks from: